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The Mummy
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| Part No: | B00005NSXY |
| Manufacturer: | Warner Home Video |
| MFG Part: | WARD22034D |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Hammer Studios' greatest nemeses, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, once again square off in this reworking of Universal's
The Mummy (with elements of
The Mummy's Tomb and
The Mummy's Ghost thrown in for good measure). Cushing stars as archeologist John Banning, whose dig for a lost tomb results in untold treasures but leaves his father a mumbling madman and marks the rest of the company for death. Lee is Kharis, a former high priest turned gauze-wrapped guardian of the tomb, a veritable Golem sent on a mission of vengeance by Mehemet Bey (George Pastell), a disciple of the ancient Egyptian god Osiris. The scenes at the archeological dig and the flashbacks to the ancient burial are stagebound and cheap looking, but Terence Fisher is back in familiar territory when the action relocates to the misty swamps and Victorian mansions of rural England. The towering, 6-foot-3-inch-tall Lee makes the most terrifying mummy to date. He covers ground in giant strides, smashes his way into rooms with heavy Frankensteinlike swipes of his arm, and takes shotgun blasts with barely a twitch--yet he melts from rage to calm at the sight of Banning's wife, Isobel (Yvonne Furneaux), a dead ringer for his dead Queen. The film is still most famous for it's tongue-removal scene, discreetly hidden from the camera but nevertheless shiver inducing.
--Sean Axmaker
The story of the curse that follows archaeologists from teh egyptian tombs back to england. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/06/2005 Starring: Peter Cushing Felix Aylmer Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr
| Mummies are cool!! | 2008-12-16 | 5 / 5 |
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| Very nice attempt at educating folks about egyptian history. Nice use of bronze skin coloring on most of the extras in the film showing egytpian rituals. Overall, this is a good story with great effects and acting. Cushing outdoes himself again. |
| Torn From the Tomb... to Terrify!! | 2008-08-21 | 4 / 5 |
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| In this, 1959's third installment from Hammer Studios, Christopher Lee dons the moldy bandages for a vengeful rampage across the Victorian countryside. Lee plays Kharis, an Egyptian priest returned from the afterlife, searching for archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) and his expedition, to exact revenge on Banning and his team, for desecrating his beloved Princess Ananka's tomb. Directed by Terrence Fisher, this film has good lighting and music score, as well as costumes and make-up, which brings that classic element of horror to the screen, that we all know and love. This is a definite keeper for the Hammer fan, (the price is certainly right,) but I think we can all agree, that Karloff will be best known for owning the role of 'The Mummy'. |
| Great acting but terrible cheap sets. | 2008-08-12 | 2 / 5 |
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| The movie has some great acting, but it is ruined by the cheap production and the cheap looking sets. It will give you chills, but somehow the B-Movie production values ruin the effect. |
| NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE KARLOFF ORIGINAL! 2 1/1/2 STARS! | 2008-01-14 | 3 / 5 |
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| I have to wonder if the people reviewing this Hammer interpretation of the Mummy watched the same film I did. I found this to be one of the lesser Hammer productions. Hammer began making some good looking horror films because the genre was getting tired and Universal was churning out low budget horror flicks for a quick buck. This version of the Mummy is not even on par with the 1940's Universal Mummy films which spanned four serial type horror sequels. Forget about the original film starring Karloff, it doesn't hold a candle to that moody,somber masterpiece! Karloff's performance is creepy and Jack Pierce's make-up is absolutely incredible! Christopher Lee may have size but, he does nothing with the role of the undead protector of the tomb. Even though he does walk faster then the laughable Mummies from the 40's, it's not so fast that he could catch anyone. As slow as the Mummies were in those Universal 40's films there was a sense of relentless pursuit, normal people get tired mummies don't. I guess with thousands of years of sleep they can go for a long time! LOL! The brilliance of the 1932 classic with Karloff was that he was supernatural and he killed his enemies with curses! You can't run from that and it makes it all the scarier that there is no place to hide. I rate this film 2 1/2/ stars for some effort and seeing the Mummy in color. I hope the sequels are better than this one. It's just didn't add much new to the character. |
| A Lot of Fun | 2007-11-05 | 4 / 5 |
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| This movie is a lot of fun. As with all Hammer movies, it has good production values and excellent color cinematography. Although a fairly standard "mummy" plot is in play, this movie stands out for the excellent background sequence set in ancient Egypt. Lee and Cushing are both masters of the genre and always fun to watch. Four stars instead of five only because the ending seems a little abrupt and weak, but it's not enough to detract greatly from the overall pleasure of the flick. |
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